'Lord Cable': telegraphy, empire, and the making of Lord Kelvin PRS

Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Nov. 16, 2007, Professor's Bruce J Hunt lecture.

"William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was an Irish and British mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form." Learn more starting from Wikipedia

-Bruce J Hunt is a Professor at the Department of History, University of Texas-

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